The varieties of economic rationality [electronic resource] : from Adam Smith to contemporary behavioural and evolutionary economics / Michel S. Zouboulakis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Adam Smith and the idea of morally constrained rationality -- 2. John Stuart Mill and the concept of socially embedded rationality -- 3. William Stanley Jevons and the concept of rationality as maximization -- 4. Vilfredo Pareto and the concept of instrumental rationality -- 5. Lionel Robbins and consistency of choices under scarcity -- 6. Neoclassical rationality under fire : theoretical, methodological and empirical critique in the late 1930s -- 7. Three conventionalist responses : Machlup, Samuelson and Friedman -- 8. Popper's retreat and the "principle of rationality" -- 9. Probabilistic choice and strategic rationality -- 10. Herbert Simon and the concept of bounded rationality -- 11. Rationality in behavioural economics -- 12. The rationality of embedded individuals.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.